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FROM, 3x09 "Revelations: Chapter 1"
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dems didn’t “throw” the election. neither side ever “throws” an election. as i said before, the cool kids call that idea “coping.” there’s no such thing as losing when you’re a ruling class politician taking turns on who gets to press the big red lockheed martin button.
democratic candidates don’t need to “learn their lesson” “learn from their mistakes” “listen to their base” “wake up from their incompetence.” you are still persuaded by their trickery if these are your conclusions. they are not rivals to republicans. they are allies; they represent the ruling class. again and again i’ll reiterate—they’re not making mistakes and they are not incompetent. they’re doing very well for themselves because the working class still consents to this process no matter what.
the ones who are incompetent, refusing to learn lessons, and the ones who are not learning from their mistakes are the american working class, because we are the ones who refuse to listen to politicians. if we listened to “our” candidates, we would quickly find out that no one represents our class interests. we have no candidates. we simply get to choose who sits at the helm of a bloodthirsty empire that will cannibalize its own servants. americans are the enemy to world peace.
Remember how the Democrats were so sure that Trump was going to put Hillary Clinton in prison in 2017 if he won because of the whole “lock her up” thing? And then Trump didn’t do that, and was convicted of actual crimes but did not go to prison? There’s definitely theater being performed here. Heck, there has been a tacit agreement for decades that the two parties won’t prosecute ex-Presidents for crimes committed in office, no matter how much they incite hatred in their voters in the election using those crimes, so that their own ex-Presidents won’t be prosecuted later. Clinton didn’t prosecute Bush/Reagan for Iran-Contra, so GWB didn’t prosecute Clinton for lying under oath, so Obama didn’t prosecute GWB for the Iraq invasion, so Trump didn’t prosecute Obama for Libya, so Biden didn’t prosecute Trump…
We’ll see if it holds; the longer it goes on the worse things will get, but unless there’s a third-party win somehow, the minute either party breaks the unspoken agreement there’s going to be a lot of fallout which the public does not expect.
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guys, Israelism (2023), a documentary made by jewish filmmakers that focuses on the insane zionist brainwashing jewish US americans go through throughout their entire lives and how difficult it is to even open your eyes to it when you grow up in that type of cultist and fascist environment, is now available for free on youtube ! I urge you to watch it !
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living at the core of a planet-eating extractive empire is cool but i just wish the domestic politics could be normal. none of these ideas have anything to do with one another
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making one of those "why i left the left" grifter videos but it's increasingly obvious i was exclusively hanging out with people who draw che guevara and fidel castro getting eachother pregnant and have based my entire conception of communism off of that
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November 6 / 7, 2024 - Far-right Israeli hooligans of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam for a match against Ajax, and went around singing their fascist songs about killing arabs and destroying palestine, attacking random people's houses, ripping down and burning palestinian flags and attacking random people for looking like palestine supporters, feeling untouchable. After an evening of this, with Amsterdam police just letting it happen, people had had enough and mostly Moroccan dutch people organised to hunt down Maccabi hooligans throughout the city. One of the Maccabi hooligans jumped in the canal to escape a beating. Passports were confiscated showing that several of the hooligans were IDF soldiers.
The Israeli government has responded by calling this a pogrom and sending two planes to Amsterdam, presumably to bomb a hospital or school in retaliation.
during several of the beatings the israeli hooligans were told "this is for the children of Palestine!". The Maccabi fans were singing songs about how there are no schools left in Gaza earlier in the day.
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All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.
Source: x.com
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Bisan interviewing Palestinians about the us elections, reported on by AJ+
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At some point, you either adapt, or you lose your mind.
FROM, 3x07 "These Fragile Lives"
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FROM, 3x06 "Scar Tissue"
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This is Israel putting its genocidal concept of "shrinking civilians" to work, where Israel shrinks what it means to be a civilian by declaring everyone in Gaza to be a combatant, mainly because of their approximity to Hamas, by creating scenarios like this.
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They are s till acting like israel gives a shit about hostages huh? if i see another fucking cunt calling western news media reliable again i'm gonna lost it
Yes, this is terrifying, and further, I must note that this is also what the USA originated in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War. For the first time in modern human warfare, the USA tried out "a zone of concentration" on the indigenous people of the Philippines by putting people in concentration camps and declaring any Pilipino merely existing outside of the the camps as combatants. This gave them a justification for the US military to slaughter anyone that didn't go willingly into the concentration camps. Israel, the genocidal colonial state, learned from the best genocidal colonial state in the world: the United States of America.
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HEY GUYS!!
GUYS!!!
FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!
ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!
We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.
As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:
- Spain - 38.72%
- Finland - 30.31%
- Ireland - 24.86%
- Netherlands - 24.15%
- Germany - 23.54%
- Belgium - 23.09%
So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!
Signed! (Belgium here)
In the EU? Please sign and share!
Not in the EU? Please share, for reach!
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this might be one of the worst things anyones ever said to me
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FROM, 3x04 "There & Back Again"